Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.